OGC marketplace faces struggle
28 August 2012
The Office for Government Commerce (OGC) will tender for a technology supplier for its proposed purchase-to-pay e-marketplace this spring but the project may struggle to ensure value for money.
Zanzibar, to be launched in March 2005, will attempt to better show who is selling in the market, improve contract compliance and aim to save £41 per fully automated transaction.
Amabel Grant, project manager of Zanzibar, told SM that companies would be invited to tender with their own suggestions for the marketplace's specifications and processes.
"We...